The cephalopod threat is going mainstream. Divers off the coast of San Diego are reporting large numbers of the aggressive, carnivorous squids emerging from the inky abyss to menace, fondle and generally cause alarm. This is the same creature to which Mexican fishermen refer, in tones of fear ...

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life. David Colborne: It's difficult to understate the importance of the Reliant. It single-handedly revived a moribund franchise, one which made some truly disastrous decisions in the late '70s. It made its parent brand intere...

Mt cousin Hannah Wallace is a food and travel journalist, who occasionally flags items for me. Here's her latest, a blog post by Scott Gold, which describes an item that must be seen to be be believed (He has a picture): I recently took a long vacation with my family to Portland, Oregon, forem...

Just as the old military adage suggests that "no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy", in America no ideology has ever survived contact with an inimical reality.
Alas, that's only true for those who actually have the responsibility of governing thrust upon them, as Obama has. The rest of the millions of Leftists who backed Obama don't have this responsibility, and so their ideology remains alive and well, and they themselves will surely turn against their erstwhile Messiah the moment he wanders too far off their reservation. That's what true believers do with heretics. Joe Lieberman, anyone?
That said, I fail to see how the Left can come out on top of any split with Obama. If Obama's first term is a success, the voting public will embrace him again in spite of any Leftist attempts to smear him. And if it's a failure, that only helps his Republican challenger in 2012.

I have been reading various commentary from left and right since the elections and have to admit to some fatigue and discouragement. I am not discouraged by Barack Obama's election. To the contrary, I think the Republican failures, in conjunction with the polling data that America remains a mo...